Hurricane Florence is expected to have little impact in Alabama, ironically ushering in several days of good weather.

On Thursday morning, the forecast tracks for the storm were calling for Florence to head to the Wilmington, N.C., area where it may make a brief landfall Friday morning/afternoon before heading back out into the Atlantic Ocean and bouncing south along the South Carolina coast before making another landfall.

From there the storm is expected to head east into Georgia before turning north. The storm will bring "extremely high" amounts of rainfall to parts of the Carolina's, said Rich Thomas, a local meteorologist.

"I expect no impact in Alabama from Florence," he said. "One thing we will see is drier air moving over our area. Florence is a huge storm, and it will slow down once it make landfall. It will suck up all the air in the region. That means drier air moving in over Alabama."

The National Weather Service Office in Birmingham is predicting mostly sunny conditions for the Montgomery area over the weekend and during the first part of next week. Friday is expected to reach a high of 93, with Friday night being partly cloudy and a low of 73.

It's a carbon copy for Saturday and Sunday forecasts.

for those keeping score at home, the average high for the Montgomery area this time of year is 88, with the average low coming in at 67, NWS data shows